Lightning Is the Only Way

The atmosphere intensified again as the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect refused to comply in the investigation.

The Ancestor of the Twilight Council narrowed his eyes as he glared at the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect. "Weaker than you?"

The Sect Master didn't even look at him. "Yes," he answered.

The Ancestor waited for further clarification, but nothing came, resulting in him becoming quite angry.

"So, you admit that you were the one?" the Ancestor asked with a threatening tone.

"Don't try to change the topic with baseless accusations," the Sect Master said calmly. "You know that your threat is empty and that you don't believe me."

Then, the Sect Master looked at the Ancestor again. "If you want to go to war with the Heavenly Divine Sect, you don't need to make grand allegations."

"Just attack."

The others looked with unease at the exchange.

Dealing with the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect was easy and difficult at the same time.

As long as one was honest and talked openly with the Sect Master, the Sect Master would give them direct answers.

However, if one tried to skirt the rules or honesty, they would find the Sect Master to be very uncooperative.

"Everyone else has already sworn by the Heavens, and you are the only remaining person that hasn't done so," the Sect Master of the Twilight Council said with a strict but calming voice. "It is logical for us to suspect you."

"Logical," the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect repeated with a scoff. "You're only saying that it's logical so that you can justify to yourself to put me into life-threatening danger by swearing upon Heaven."

"You don't believe that I've done it because you know exactly that I wouldn't use such underhanded tactics. Yet, you want me to swear upon the Heavens regardless, even though you're already certain that I didn't do it."

"Is this some kind of political powerplay?" he asked.

It had been quite a while since the two leaders of the Twilight Council felt that frustrated with someone.

Everyone had made a small sacrifice to show their support and unity. As one entity, they had already paid their proverbial taxes, but the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect refused to pay anything, saying that he hadn't supported this decision.

If a majority agreed, one should follow the rules of the majority. Otherwise, things wouldn't work out, and all sides would be unhappy.

The Ancestor wanted to say something, but the Sect Master of the Twilight Council stopped him with an urging glance.

The two of them looked at each other for a while as they exchanged voice transmissions.

The Ancestor had wanted to declare that morality was on his side and that the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect had to comply with their orders. If he didn't, they would declare war on his Sect.

However, the Sect Master of the Twilight Council had stopped him.

Why?

Because every single person that had ever threatened the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect had died.

A threat was a show of enmity, which automatically made the threatening person into an enemy in the Sect Master's eyes.

So, why should he hold himself back if the other person was already his enemy?

Enemies deserved to die, and he would simply kill them.

If the Ancestor of the Twilight Council decided to threaten the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect, the Sect Master would directly attack the two leaders of the Twilight Council with the intent to kill.

the Twilight Council were certain that they could win against him, but it would

of the Heavenly Divine Sect left,

they wanted their disciples to get some

Why?

the most territory out of all of them,

other Sects tried to survive and tried to own enough territory to create more powerful disciples, but the Heavenly Divine

of the Heavenly Divine Sect could fight multiple Sect Masters alone, and the Ancestor of the Heavenly Divine Sect

two ways to destroy the Heavenly Divine

that would still leave a chance of failure. To be sure, one would need four or five

need to get involved. She was the only member of the Peak Sects that could take out the Heavenly

theoretically possible but would

what were they supposed to do

to the death or take

even a

responsible for the death of our Vice-Sect Master?" the

at the exchange with

in front of the

Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect looked calmly at the Sect

"Yes."

as if nothing of note had happened, but then they registered

Yes?

Wait, he knew?

the Twilight Council was just

asked that question so that he could say that the Sect Master of the Heavenly Divine Sect had helped them in their

Sect Master

the Ancestor asked in surprise. "Who

you?" the

rage and frustration, but his Sect Master stopped

couldn't lose his

the Heavenly Divine Sect very well since that Sect Master had only come to fame after the Ancestor had

of

of the Twilight Council had followed the story of the Sect Master of the

the information?" the Sect Master

Comprehension Life

his Sect

the Ancestor

Sect Master said. "We will bring your Law Comprehension Life

the Heavenly Divine

actually surprised that you didn't guess it yourselves. It's actually really

when they heard

he calling them

sowing chaos among us? Who benefitted the most from keeping the fight going until the Twilight Council arrived? Who benefitted

Benefit?

looked at each other

none of them would benefit. After all, it was risky, but it wasn't impossible to

of them would

the Vice-Sect Master of the Twilight Council was a major risk without

Heavenly Divine Sect watched them for a couple of seconds and scoffed. "You are so used to being above everyone else

anything against you, and

than us aren't necessarily stupider. If you foresaw how something would go, they

are a never-before-seen genius

Never-before-seen genius?

a second,

gone!" the representative of the Mortal Sect suddenly shouted as she pointed